Amazon building orbital satellite internet
Stage Zero Studio with Wil Waldon · Frontier AI Labs
April 4, 20197m 45s
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Show Notes
Amazon wants to launch thousands of satellites so it can offer broadband internet from space.
- "Project Kuiper" is Amazon's plan to launch 3,236 satellites to build a network to provide global high-speed internet.
- The move represents the latest space ambition from Jeff Bezos.
- There's a race among several major players to build a next-generation broadband network in space, including Elon Musk's SpaceX and SoftBank-backed OneWeb.